Kayaw - Featuring: Kalinga Music, Songs And Dances

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Label: Villar

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The strength of flowing time, the endurance of toiling hands, and the dominance over the bounty of the land . . . creeped from Nature to the rich brown Igorot bodies, dancing and singing loud praises to the "anitos". Music, songs and dances uniquely Filipino, emanating from the mountainsides, rhythmic rivers, and terraced plots evergreens -- from the land of the Kalingas.

What holds the tribes together? Natural bonds, similarities... bonds for protection, for rituals, customs and practices. The bond of peace is called - Budong.

The Budong unites the tribes. It is law. But a pact, if broken meant war, it called for vengeance. Hence the head-hunt called -- KAYAW.

For the first time -- on VILLAR label -- KAYAW is preserved for posterity, for the next generation, and the next, ad infinitum, to marvel and acclaim as many tourists from many, many lands do.

KAYAW, a suite of dances presented by thirty-seven pure blooded Montanosas -- Ifugao, Benguet, Bontoc and Kalinga-Apayao -- portraying primitive, religious rituals, hunts and festivities. KAYAW, featuring authentic and original Kalinga Music, Songs and Dances, is a look into the past, but also another monumental achievement in the realm of recorded music by VILLAR, for present day listening entertainment and for the foreseeable future.

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